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- “Maya Lin” won the Academy Award as the best documentary film of 1994, an award that will always be footnoted with the information that it won in the year when the academy committee rejected “ Hoop Dreams.” It was not the best documentary of the year, but it is a valuable document.
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Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision is a documentary that deserve to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary. I know that Hoop Dreams should had won the Oscar in that particular year. But I...
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Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. The opening scene of this Academy Award-winning documentary directed by Frieda Lee Mock shows sculptor and architect Maya Lin at her drafting table mixed with scenes of visitors to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial that she designed.
Ebert and his associate Gene Siskel publicly apologized to Mock after seeing Maya Lin, with Ebert saying "I think it's a good film and deserved to be nominated.", but other prominent critics such as Janet Maslin maintained that while Maya Lin was a good film it was clearly outshone by documentaries such as Hoop Dreams and Crumb which were passed up for nomination.
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MAYA LIN: A STRONG CLEAR VISION is perhaps best known as the film that won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in the year (1994) that HOOP DREAMS was not even nominated. This story of a...
This moving documentary is a portrait of the Chinese American artist, architect, and sculptor who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as an undergraduate student at Yale University. This film tells the gripping story behind the memorial and explores a decade of her creative work.
